Other Things Worthy of Your Time
Justice and Righteousness
10/9/03
I've played the line over a hundred times in my head, but have yet to overuse it on paper. I'm pretty sure it'll come to that pretty soon too. If there's one thing that's stuck out this past summer for my main goal in the coming years it's this: I intend to put righteousness back in the Law System, and maybe doing this by putting God back in the Government.
I don't like to consider myself a Bible basher. Before this summer I didn't even know what the term secular was because that's what I was completely. And while I don't see everything being as bad as some say it is, the threads of our society are slowly becoming undone. Maybe going back to some of our roots is just what we need. I'm not talking about completely backtracking to where we started because where we need to go is still forward, but there are some things that made everything we have now possible that we've forgotten.
Isn't it funny how we're so quick to point a finger at religion as being unjust when it was religion that gave us justice in the first place? We look at the church as the body that burnt innocent people as witches hundreds of years ago when it was a misinterpretation of their faith that led them to do it. Had they followed their law as it was supposed to, they should have known that it wasn't in their hands to judge people as blindly as they did, and would have been an effective--and righteous--form of governing.
What really spawned my ideals recently was the effort to remove the Ten Commandments from the courthouse down south. I don't get it. Wasn't it the Ten Commandments that gave us the original basis for a system of laws, and what we then molded into our current idea of a justice that ensures our freedom? If we're pulling apart the foundation, how long until the house falls down around us?
Why is it we still put God in our allegiance to this country (one nation, under* God), and still collectively fall back on a Greater Power in times of need (our prayers), but still act like this same God is so dangerous that we must separate him from our governing?
Years ago, it probably seemed like a pretty admirable task: I want to be a Law Student who studied in Theology. Now though, I wonder if it's even been done recently. It's a shame too, because it's come to the point where our Justice System is looked at as immoral and un-honest. Why does everyone hate Lawyers? Is it because they don't like the law? No, for the most part they don't like what the law has become.
I want to be an Attorney, then maybe a judge or a politician while holding onto and preaching a religion that's been so important to our life as we know it: the Word of God.
NOTES
I don't know what I wrote this for. I didn't really like the tone. It was much too religious to be taken seriously, which is a sad fact.